[Frameworks] Brand New Website

2013-10-07 Thread Ken Paul Rosenthal
At your leisure, please check out my swell new website:
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Re: [Frameworks] b/w prints new york

2013-10-07 Thread Robert Houllahan
> Your choices would be Colorlab, Cinefilm in Boston, and Cinema Arts in PA.  
> Sadly there's no more Alpha Cine.  

That's Cinelab in Boston….;-)

UPS Ground is overnight to us at Cinelab from the metro NYC area, and I think 
Colorlab still has an office in NYC.

Expect to be patient with a Timed B&W print with us at Cinelab, we have allot 
of printing work to do right now, one light prints are a little faster. All of 
our 16mm dry gate prints are now done on the Model-C we got from DuArt.

www.cinelab.com

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Re: [Frameworks] 35mm hand crank projector

2013-10-07 Thread Philippe Leonard
Hi Ed!

Although this seems like a really neat piece to start a project, I need
something by the 20th in Boston and I can't pick up anywhere else. If you
have any leads in the Boston area let me know, it would be greatly
appreciated!

Best,

Phil

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On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ed Inman  wrote:

> Here's a Super Simplex projector head for sale that still has the handle
> shaft installed. http://www.msusurplusstore.com/servlet/Detail?no=6780
> If you look at the video you will see a photo the handle shaft directly
> under the glass window painted "Super Simplex" at the 50-second mark.
>  Assuming the projector head is serviceable, you would just have to mount
> it on a stand with a lamphouse, attach a handle to the shaft & start
> turning. You can probably remove the RCA soundhead and run the take-up reel
> from a belt directly off the picture head if you are projecting silent
> (which would probably make it easier to crank). I'm not sure I'd want to
> pay $650 for equipment this old untested but they might make a deal. I have
> a 1936 Super Simplex that still runs like a top. Just before you buy one
> make sure it still has the handle shaft--many were removed (or perhaps
> never installed) as most were motorized by the 1930s.  And finding a spare
> handle shaft may be far more difficult than finding a whole projector head
> with one already installed.   --Ed
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Philippe Leonard **
> Sent: Oct 6, 2013 10:16 AM
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List **
> Subject: [Frameworks] 35mm hand crank projector
>
> Dear omniscient listserv,
>
> I will be doing a workshop in Boston (from Oct 9-22) and make a film that
> will (ideally) requires a hand cranked 35mm projector for the final
> screening scheduled for the 22nd at the Goethe Institute. Any leads on film
> resources, darkroom, lab, film enthusiasts and such would be greatly
> appreciated as I'm always looking forward to meet fellow filmmakers. I am
> currently attending Views and if some of you holding answers to my
> questions are here too let me know, we could meet up today!
>
> Looking forward to hear from you,
>
> Phil
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Re: [Frameworks] 35mm hand crank projector

2013-10-07 Thread Philippe Leonard
Thanks Scott I will look into those while in Boston!

Best,

Phil

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On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Scott Dorsey  wrote:

> I don't know what you're looking for specifically, but Cinelab is in Boston
> and does B&W processing, and Boston Light and Sound rents various 35mm
> projection hardware.  I don't know if they have anything hand-cranked other
> than a Kodascope in the glass case in the lobby but they, like Cinelab, are
> run by good people who love film.
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Re: [Frameworks] b/w prints new york

2013-10-07 Thread Jeff Kreines
There are no labs in NYC that do B&W wet work in house.

Your choices would be Colorlab, Cinefilm in Boston, and Cinema Arts in PA.  
Sadly there's no more Alpha Cine.  

If you want high quality scanning of your B&W negative in NYC, Kinetta Archival 
is there (disclaimer -- I am one of the people running it).

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta

On Oct 7, 2013, at 10:59 AM, ev petrol  wrote:

> metropolis send their stuff out to technicolour though, don't they?
>  
> moiratierney.net
> vimeo.com/moiratierney
> 
> From: Pip Chodorov 
>  To: Experimental Film Discussion List  
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] price increase on all Kodak B/W film
> 
> I can recommend Metropolis on West 30th street. Tel: 212-563-9388
> 
> 
> At 11:57 -0400 25/09/13, Jim Jennings wrote:
>>  
>> CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND A LAB IN NYC THAT CAN MAKE B@W PRINT
>> FROM AN ORGINAL NEGATIVE
> 
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[Frameworks] b/w prints new york

2013-10-07 Thread ev petrol
metropolis send their stuff out to technicolour though, don't they?

 
moiratierney.net
vimeo.com/moiratierney




 From: Pip Chodorov 
To: Experimental Film Discussion List  
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] price increase on all Kodak B/W film
 


Re: [Frameworks] price increase on all Kodak B/W
film
I can recommend Metropolis on West 30th street. Tel:
212-563-9388


At 11:57 -0400 25/09/13, Jim Jennings wrote:
 
>
CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND A LAB IN NYC THAT
CAN MAKE B@W PRINT
>
FROM AN ORGINAL NEGATIVE
>

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[Frameworks] Johan Grimonprez Contact?

2013-10-07 Thread LJ Frezza
Hello Everyone,
Does anybody have Johan Grimonprez's email address? There's one on his
website, but I wasn't sure if that was the best way to contact him
Thanks,
-LJ

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Re: [Frameworks] Seeking Camera Recommendation

2013-10-07 Thread Robert Houllahan
>> I'm looking to purchase my first (!) video camera and am certain I *do not* 
>> want a DSLR. I'd like to spend between $2K and $4K. 

The kids seem to be alright….

http://www.digitalbolex.com/guest-post-kurt-lancaster/


-Rob-

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Re: [Frameworks] Seeking Camera Recommendation

2013-10-07 Thread Jeff Kreines @ Kinetta
If you don't need a camera with good ergonomics for hand-holding , the Sony 
FS100 is worth a look. Amazing in low light, and you can use almost any lens 
that will cover the 35mm cine sized sensor. Lenses make a big difference so not 
being stuck with just one is useful. It has a 4k sensor which make a big 
difference. 

But the camera's design is closer to a Hasselblad. The newer Sony F5 solves 
that but costs 4x more. 

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
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kinetta.com

> On Oct 7, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Ken Paul Rosenthal  
> wrote:
> 
> I'm looking to purchase my first (!) video camera and am certain I *do not* 
> want a DSLR. I'd like to spend between $2K and $4K. I don't make 
> films/documentaries that are 'traditional' in their style, ie: talking head, 
> onscreen interviews, industrial, etc. My primary desire is for a camera in 
> which the strongest qualities are the basics; lens, sensor, build quality. 
> While I might shoot the occasional interview for hire on the side, I'm 
> looking for exceptional image in a camera that's light enough to toss in a 
> wearable camera bag or carry on a plane, and sturdy enough to take a bit of 
> punishment. In short, I'm looking for an advanced pro-sumer camera. Let the 
> suggestions commence!
> 
> Ken
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> www.kenpaulrosenthal.com
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[Frameworks] Seeking Camera Recommendation

2013-10-07 Thread Ken Paul Rosenthal
I'm looking to purchase my first (!) video camera and am certain I *do not* 
want a DSLR. I'd like to spend between $2K and $4K. I don't make 
films/documentaries that are 'traditional' in their style, ie: talking head, 
onscreen interviews, industrial, etc. My primary desire is for a camera in 
which the strongest qualities are the basics; lens, sensor, build quality. 
While I might shoot the occasional interview for hire on the side, I'm looking 
for exceptional image in a camera that's light enough to toss in a wearable 
camera bag or carry on a plane, and sturdy enough to take a bit of punishment. 
In short, I'm looking for an advanced pro-sumer camera. Let the suggestions 
commence!Kenwww.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.comwww.kenpaulrosenthal.com


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Re: [Frameworks] abstraction and politics

2013-10-07 Thread Fred Camper
Of course, Brakhage, and of course, "23rd Psalm Branch." I have also  
argued, for example in my liner notes  for the Criterion DVD, that his  
work as a whole constitutes an argument against our object-oriented,  
commodified, static, consumerist culture. This to me is arguably a  
profounder statement than a film that takes a particular position on a  
particular issue of the day.


In his remarks at the premiere of "The Text of Light," published in  
several sources, he talks about opposing the typical American view of  
landscape as real estate, something to be divided up and bought and  
sold.


Fred Camper
Camper

Quoting marilyn brakhage :

While they probably wouldn't normally be considered political, some  
Stan Brakhage films are short, abstract works that can be seen, at  
least in part, as meditations on certain cultural histories.  For  
examples:  "Unconscious London Strata," "In Consideration of  
Pompeii," "b Series" (containing "Retrospect:  The Passover," "Blue  
Black Introspection," "Blood Drama," "I Am Afraid:  And This Is My  
Fear," and "Sorrowing"), "Three Homerics," "The Egyptian Series,"  
"Persian Series" and "Chinese Series."  . . . And of course, "23rd  
Psalm Branch," perhaps his most "political" film, does have  
significant abstract passages.


Marilyn Brakhage


On 6-Oct-13, at 7:59 PM, Kelly Sears wrote:


Dear frameworkers,

I would love to pick your collective brain about some film/videos  
that use abstraction to address political, social, or cultural  
histories.   I would double love it if anyone had any suggestions  
of writings on this topic as well.  I'm interested in learning more  
about how this visual strategy and lack of the figurative or  
representational could be used in a political/critical way.


Many thank yous.

Kelly


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Re: [Frameworks] abstraction and politics

2013-10-07 Thread Beebe, Roger
Kelly,

This is an interesting question, and it demands a complicated answer.  First, I 
think it's important to note that abstraction is not an absolute but that 
there's a large gray area between abstraction and representation.  I'd argue 
that many if not most experimental films inhabit that gray area.  I'd say these 
films "tend toward abstraction" but I wouldn't simply say they "are abstract."  
So a videotape like Jackie Goss's "There There Square" plays with forms of 
abstraction (in the morphing, sometimes roughly drawn outlines of states and 
the U.S.) and her intro and outro sequences are fully abstract (colored squares 
that float around in relationship to one another).  "There There Square" is 
also (obviously?) political, in the way it wants to think about cartography and 
our imagination of boundaries.

But then there are fully abstract works, like some of Brakhage's hand-painted 
films.  There is certainly a politics to the making of abstract works--a 
refusal of normative visual codes, a challenge to the viewer to reimagine her 
or his relationship to cinema, etc.  And these politics are surely different in 
different historical moments, depending on what the aims of that abstract 
gesture are (refusal of Hollywood's codes,  a representation of closed-eye 
vision, etc.)

But since you've used a very specific language ("films/videos that use 
abstraction TO ADDRESS political, social, or cultural histories"), I assume you 
mean a more direct and specific engagement with specific political issues.  In 
that case, I think we'd have to be in the realm of films that tend toward 
abstraction rather than the fully abstract.  Many found footage films do this 
kind of work (abstracting from a representational original)--Chris Harris's 
"Reckless Eyeballing" comes immediately to mind, but there are dozens and 
dozens more in this mode.  

And then there are films that are shot or processed using techniques that 
abstract the image (shooting through glass, shooting reflections, 
hand-processing, pushing film to increase grain, using macrophotography to 
isolate textures, etc.).  Lawrence Brose's De Profundis, especially important 
at this moment due to his current legal travails, uses a number of these 
techniques to abstract both found and original footage, but again, that's just 
one example of hundreds.

Hope this helps as a starting point for what's potentially a very big 
conversation.  (For those with long histories on Frameworks, I know we've been 
on this merry-go-round before.  I don't propose to rekindle the fires of those 
old flame wars, so hopefully it'll be possible to lay this out without having 
to "choose sides.")

...
Roger

On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Kelly Sears wrote:

> Dear frameworkers,
> 
> I would love to pick your collective brain about some film/videos that use 
> abstraction to address political, social, or cultural histories.   I would 
> double love it if anyone had any suggestions of writings on this topic as 
> well.  I'm interested in learning more about how this visual strategy and 
> lack of the figurative or representational could be used in a 
> political/critical way.
> 
> Many thank yous.
> 
> Kelly
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